While Rome Burns [Inscribed and Signed]
by Alexander Woollcott
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1934. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1934. Thirteenth Printing in the year of publication. Large octavo; publisher's cloth in tan pictorial price-clipped dust jacket printed in red and black; viii,328pp. General edge wear to jacket extremities including a number of short closed tears never approaching text, tiny soil spot to front panel, spine toned and a bit cocked, small paper flaw to front free endpaper, front hinge cracked but holding; overall Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper.
Collection of humor essays by the New Yorker theater critic and member of the Algonquin Round Table.
Collection of humor essays by the New Yorker theater critic and member of the Algonquin Round Table.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12105
- Title
- While Rome Burns [Inscribed and Signed]
- Author
- Alexander Woollcott
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
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